Hector Blondet-Texidor was a Puerto Rican professional basketball player, who in the 1970s played with the "Cardenales de Rio Piedras" and the "Capitanes de Arecibo" teams in the National Basketball League in Puerto Rico.

During that time, he was also the shooting guard of the Puerto Rican national basketball

Puerto Rico national basketball team

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 team, leading the team to a 6th place at the 1972 Olympics

1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

 in Munich, where he scored 150 points in nine games. Four years later, he took his team to a 9th place at the 1976 Olympics

1976 Summer Olympics

The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

 in Montreal

Montreal

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. Before this, Blondet had also helped Puerto Rico win the silver medal at the 1971 Pan American Games

1971 Pan American Games

The 6th Pan American Games were held in Cali, Colombia, from July 30 to August 13, 1971. The then called "Salsa World Capital", located at the foot of the Andes Mountains, hosted a total of 2,935 athletes from 32 countries, who participated in seventeen sports...

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Blondet was 1.95m tall and weighed 91 kg.

He is buried at the New Cemetery of Morovis.